
Toilet Paper is one of those basic human needs. Much like water. It varies in price. Personally I love Scott Extra soft, super-mega roll. (The one that provides a extendable wall thing.) This kind in particular is a bit on the steep side, but well worth the money you spend. Since I am a poor college student I choose to no longer buy this, or any brand of T.P. at all for the matter. You maybe wondering how I am living without toilet paper since it is one of those basic humans needs. Well, I have been borrowing it from a public bathroom for the past year and a half. I feel extremely justified in doing this for several reasons.
1. The public bathroom is at the school cafe that i frequent. Their food is over priced and not that great. So they owe it to me since I have been a loyal customer for the past year and a half.
2. My job as a Resident Assistant gives me a free meal plan, this is a great benefit. This new school year there was a budget cut, and now all RA's get the smallest meal plans. In year's past they had the second to largest one. So I feel that the least the school can do for me to make up for all the budget cuts is to pay for my toilet paper.
Even though my toilet paper is free, it is still a big inconvenience. It takes time to get it out of the dispenser, and I have to time it just right when there is no one in the bathroom. It is a huge roll like none you could buy at any local Walmart. So putting several in a bag and walking around campus with out look suspicious is really quite difficult, and can be embarrassing.
One time when we were clean out and I knew after class I would not have time to go to the cafe bathroom to borrow some before it closed I went to class with one roll in my purse. In the middle of class I went digging into my purse for something and forgot the T.P. was within and the roll went rolling out. Everyone saw it and I was so embarrassed and thought that someone was going to turn me in. I had no choice but to have it in my purse at that exact time. That cafe bathroom in the only one I know how to borrow toilet paper from. And that cafe was going to be closed when I was out of class and I was not going to go with out toilet paper. I have tried many other bathrooms in many other buildings on campus. Alas. Those ones failed me. Luckily for me I was not turned in.
It is also very inconvenient because the tissue on those huge rolls is not nearly soft as Scott's and does not come with an extendable extender to put it on the wall in fact there is not even a hole in the middle of the roll. It just sorta is always rolling around on the back of the toilet or floor. This is challenging especially when you are on the pot and it rolls right away from you. I am grateful that the cafe has been so generous the past year and half with providing me with a basic human need.

